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Okay, skinny jeans had to go.

Steve Simonsen:

This morning I received an urgent telephone call from my good friend Pam Gaffin. She was terribly excited about an event that was happening before her eyes. Pam told me it was a migration of soldier crabs also called hermit crabs and there were millions and millions of them she likened it to the migrations of Serengeti.

At what point do you watch this video and think, “That’s really….CREEPY!!”

PayPal’s president is promising to make major changes to the way the company works after the latest publicized incident of the company freezing a customer out of his own funds.

Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s is suing porn makers for trademark violation, after they produced “Boston Cream Thighs” and “Peanut Butter D-Cup.”

More Shit Apple Fanatics Say!

I’d like to thank Weather 2x for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed this week.

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Check out the latest version with great new features including iCloud sync, Twitter & E-mail sharing, local weather detection, and images of Jim’s igloo for when it reaches those sub-zero temperatures.

I’ve been using Weather 2x since it first came out and love it.

Businessweek did an article today focusing on Daring Fireball’s John Gruber. Besides being a friend, John has helped me with advice and encouragement when I was redesigning The Loop. There is no doubt he has had a big impact on blogging.

So Nokia admitted to faking the video and now they fake the images too. Was anything about yesterday’s event real?

Wired:

Amazon packed a boatload of new products, services and information into its Santa Monica media event Thursday morning. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos introduced a trifecta of new Kindle Fire Tablets, new software services to improve the tablet experience, and updated Kindle e-reader models.

If you are a fan of Amazon and/or their Kindle devices, there’s a lot to like about these announcements. Amazon has a niche – customers who want access to the Amazon ecosystem – and are serving it well.

It may not be a two horse race but the other horses are three legged.

Associated Press:

The nation will have a chance to say goodbye to Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, in a memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral on Sept. 13.The 10 a.m. service will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the websites of the cathedral and space agency.

I’d amend that first sentence to “The world will have a chance to say goodbye…” Armstrong represents and represented more than just America. He represented the best in all of us.

Smash-and-grab robbers.

If you can’t laugh at yourself…

The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue documents what people in the early 19th century used to describe sex acts.

Misleading? Bullshit!

On this week’s episode of Amplified, Jim and Dan discuss the upcoming Apple event and whether or not it will be exclusively iPhone, the Samsung Mob!lers program and IFA 2012, Apple’s addition of the Galaxy S III to its complaint, app development and the “Sparrow Problem”, the VOX JAMVOX, headphones, guitars, and more!Sponsored by Hover (use coupon DANSENTME for 10% off), Sourcebits, and Squarespace (use coupon DANSENTME9 for 10% off)

Designed and produced by the World Wide Web Foundation, the Web Index is the world’s first multi-dimensional measure of the Web’s growth, utility and impact on people and nations. It covers 61 developed and developing countries, incorporating indicators that assess the political, economic and social impact of the Web, as well as indicators of Web connectivity and infrastructure.

Studiometry, the project management and time billing software from Oranged Software, gains more than 150 new features in its newest major upgrade.

The majority of those polled in a recent survey think “cloud computing” involves the fluffy white things in the sky.

Samsung is accused of making workers in Chinese factories work up to 100 hours per week, and employing children.

How Doctor Who producers put together a heretofore unseen number of Daleks for the new season premiere.

Now, according to a Yahoo executive involved in hiring, Mayer is actually doing it.She literally looks at every serious candidate’s resume.

Much respect to Marissa Mayer. She wants the talent she feels will improve the company and she’s making sure she gets it.

PCWorld:

Is it time to give Java the boot? Experts say yes.Java, the programming language designed to make the web fun and interactive, has become one of the weakest links in a PC’s and Mac’s defenses against external threats.The risks don’t outweigh the rewards, security experts say. “I’d say 90 percent of users don’t need Java anymore,” says Dominique Karg, the founder and chief hacking officer of AlienVault, a security software company. “I consider myself a ‘power user’ and the last and only time I realized I had Java installed on my Mac was when I had to update it.”

When was the last time you used Java on your Mac?

Savant is a Cape Cod, Massachusetts-based maker of home automation systems that strongly feature Apple hardware and software.

One of the most famous gangsters of all time.

Are you a guy worried about losing your hair? Get over it, ya pussy.

A distinctively different kind of weather app for iPad and iPhone with stunning Retina-quality visuals and a refreshingly fun and touch centric UI.

Weather 2x is the perfect balance of aesthetics, intuitive functionality and the right amount of detail.

Check out the latest version with great new features including iCloud sync, Twitter & E-mail sharing, local weather detection, and images of Jim’s igloo for when it reaches those sub-zero temperatures.

I’ve been using Weather 2x since it first came out and love it.

An incredible story that our own Peter Cohen has been living.